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I tuned out Shep Smith after hearing him say, for the umpteenth time, that lawbreaking illegal aliens are all just poor, honest, hard-working folks trying to feed their families by doing the jobs Americans won’t do. Seems to be the FNC’s party line. I don’t know how Smith votes, but his views on illegal immigration are in sync with Geraldo Rivera and Juan Hernandez.

What is “inaccurate and insulting” here is the notion that these Jerry Springerish shout-downs by O’Reilley, Hannity, et al. pass for news. This is cheap theater not serious journalism.

hippiepunk on February 6, 2008 at 9:04 PM

Point well taken but you have to understand Fox’s audience and their demographic, which gravitates toward rambuctious debate with a sportsmen like flavor.

Remember O’Reilly in the early days was not really geared to that but after time you get the audience that you get and you need to feed that audience accordingly. The same with Hannity and Shep’s demographic too.

What is “inaccurate and insulting” here is the notion that these Jerry Springerish shout-downs by O’Reilley, Hannity, et al. pass for news. This is cheap theater not serious journalism.

hippiepunk on February 6, 2008 at 9:04 PM

I cant say I always agree with what is on FOX, but I can agree that people like this woman need to be put in their place. There are too many people like this woman that never get called for thier crap.In my opinion this is why we find ourselves in the mess we have now.

I like the point at the end. They’re not babies.. and they VOLUNTEERED! They all knew what they were getting into. Yes, we want them out of harm’s way, but they are not ignorant babies… they are consenting adults.

What is “inaccurate and insulting” here is the notion that these Jerry Springerish shout-downs by O’Reilley, Hannity, et al. pass for news. This is cheap theater not serious journalism.

What you fail to realize is that O’Reilly, Hannity, et al. are NOT “journalists”; they are commentators who have been hired for the express purpose of giving you their opinion on the news. CNN, PMSNBC, C(more)BS, and the rest all do the exact same thing, the difference is they aren’t honest about it and try to pass their commentators off as “unbiased journalistst”, when they are anything but that.

To people like her, they’re “babies” when they volunteer to do something for their country, prove that they love their country by stepping up and putting their lives on the line for it – like men and women instead of crybabying children with their hands out – but they’re not babies when they’re 13 and want birth control or an abortion.

Shep is one of the few stand up guys at FOX. Him and Greg. If i have to listen one more time to B’Or imply that he’s the sole reason behind all his regular guest’s success I’m going to hurl. Power corrupts and that’s obviously been the case with H&C & B’Or.